Art of the Finnish Kantele

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The kantele is a traditional Finnish folk instrument, or rather, a group of instruments, of the same type as the psaltery and popular in various forms in north and eastern Europe and in western Russia. Many aspects, from the shape of the body and tuning, to the playing position and the number of strings can vary, in much the same way the guitar varies from the 4-string bass t...(展开全部) The kantele is a traditional Finnish folk instrument, or rather, a group of instruments, of the same type as the psaltery and popular in various forms in north and eastern Europe and in western Russia. Many aspects, from the shape of the body and tuning, to the playing position and the number of strings can vary, in much the same way the guitar varies from the 4-string bass to the 12-string instrument. Featured on this album are 5, 9 and 36-stringed kanteles (instruments with as many as 46 strings with a four octave range exist), plus a jouhikko, which is a form of bowed lyre.